Dana workers at the auto parts maker’s oldest facility in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, reached out to the WSWS to discuss the abuses and low pay at the profitable corporation.
The outcome of the struggle at Clarios will have major consequences for the 170,000 autoworkers in the US and Canada whose contracts expire this summer.
On Thursday, nearly 50 current and former workers from Dana as well as workers from the Stellantis Toledo Jeep Assembly plant met to discuss a common strategy in the struggle against unjust firings and corporate exploitation.
Dana workers across the US noticed as March 31, the date by which Appendix P of the contract says Dana must pay “profit sharing,” passed without workers receiving much needed income. We, the rank-and-file, are demanding answers as to why we did not get paid.
Convention delegates overwhelmingly rejected or prevented votes on resolutions calling for cost-of-living increases, opposition to tiers in electric vehicle plants and the rights of academic workers.